ALICE Training is a program that teaches strategies for responding to an active shooter situation. The acronym stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate. The program emphasizes that actively confronting a violent intruder is not the best method for ensuring safety, and that counter is a strategy of last resort. Instead, the program teaches actions designed to interrupt a violent intruders decision-making cycles and ability to shoot accurately, such as creating noise, movement, distance, and distraction. The program also teaches techniques for evacuating through windows, from higher floors, and under extreme duress. ALICE Training is delivered in an age- and ability-appropriate way, with customized lesson plans for different age groups. The program has been incorporated into many schools multihazard emergency operations plans. While there are no guarantees that no one will be injured or killed, the program was designed by law enforcement officers who used the same techniques that helped them survive life-and-death situations. ALICE Training has been controversial, with some critics arguing that it traumatizes children and could put them at greater risk of getting killed.